Ben Goodger has been updating the release plan for the Firefox 1.0 release.

He says that Mozilla Firefox 1.0 is targeted for a release on the 14th September. But those who have been following the Firefox milestone releases know what target means. It usually means + few more weeks... But I guess it's ok as long as 1.0 will be the best Firefox ever produced. You can read more about the release plan here

But I wonder what happened with the Firefox 0.9 milestone. Here they released a milestone with a buggy Extension and Theme manager. There where testers out there who pointed to problems and there were also filed bug reports to bugzilla. But Mozilla.org ignored this chose to release a somewhat buggy 0.9 release and then fix the problems a few weeks later with 0.9.1

I have heard some say it was to move faster to the 1.0 release. But I don't get it: They have to fix the bugs for the extension and theme manager anyway so why not use some more time on the 0.9 milestone. Then they wouldn't have to spend time for the 0.9.1 release...

Perhaps the developers have a big master plan that my little mind doesn't understand.

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